GENUS PROCONSUL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of extinct primitive African primates of the Miocene epoch; sometimes considered a subgenus of Dryopithecus

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Proconsul" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Proconsul"):

proconsul (an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul)

Holonyms ("genus Proconsul" is a member of...):

Hominoidea; superfamily Hominoidea (anthropoid apes and human beings)

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